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Mohsen Moheimany (July 6, 1987) is a Ph.D. graduate in Political Science, freelance journalist, civil activist, and researcher with a background in student activism. He was born in Gorgan, the capital city of Golestan province.

Education

Mohsen Moheimany did a bachelor's degree at the University of Tehran (2005-2010). He did a MA in Public Policy at the University of Nottingham, 2011-2012 and after that, he was granted a full scholarship for doing a Ph.D. at the Dublin City University. He defended his Ph.D. in 2018 at the School of Law and Government.

Student activism

He served as the head of the Islamic Associations of Students of the Faculty of Law and Political Science during the 2009-2010 period. He issued some statements regarding the 2009 presidential elections and nationwide protests afterwards. He was the Chief Editor of a student paper called Baran, at the University of Tehran. In Dublin, he co-founded a Dublin Law and Politics Review student group, which has grown bigger as a community at Dublin City University.

Publications

Mohsen Moheimany has widely published in media and academic journals and books. Mohsen has worked as a journalist since 16. He started this career in 2002 with Salim newsweekly in Golestan province. Later he cooperated with national newspapers and contributed with his articles in Ghanoon newspaper and Iran Green Voice website. He has published on the international Persian and English media webpage, including Iran International, the Globepost and RTE. Mohsen has published several academic texts including book chapters and articles. His first book called NGOs, Policy Networks and Political Participation in Hybrid Regimes was published in 2020. He also co-authored a book chapter titled the Changing Civil Society and The Hybrid Regie in Iran and the Covid-19, Youth, and Engineered Social Movements in Iran.

Ban on the Right to Education

As a result of student and political activities during 2005-2010, Mohsen Moheimany was summoned to the Disciplinary Committee of the University of Tehran a few times. Once, the then President of the University Farhad Rahbar signed the order of banning Mohsen Moheimany from entering the university campus for one semester in 2009. In 2009, the Ministry of Intelligence banned Mohsen Moheimany from continuing higher education at the MA level, despite succession in the national University Entrance Examination (Konkur) with the rank of 129. With this ban, he became one of the hundreds of students called Starred Students. In 2014, when he was doing his Ph.D. in Ireland, once he went back to Iran to do a part of his research fieldwork, but with the order of the Security Prosecutor Office of Tehran, the Passport Police seized Mohsen Moheimany’s passport for two years. His name was on a list of 188 activists that were living abroad, and the government placed a ban on their passport. From 2014 to May 2016. The Intelligence Ministry interrogated him a few times.

Political affiliations

Mohsen Moheimany joined the Youth and then the Student leagues of the Islamic Iran Participation Front party in Tehran. Later in 2014, He co-founded a group in Golestan province called Young Reformists (Vefagh). This group was compromised of dozens of reformist youths and held a few board elections, including one election in 2014.